MotoGP Workshop: Setting up for Aragón

Just how does a MotoGP team go about preparing their machine to race on a new track? Find out here with the Fiat Yamaha’s Wilco Zeelenberg and Félix Rodriguez of the Pramac Racing team.

The Gran Premio A-Style de Aragón this weekend offers up a whole new challenge for the premier class as each individual team and the rider prepares to race on a track they have no experience of on board their prototype machines.

In this motogp.com video feature Wilco Zeelenberg, Team Manager for the Jorge Lorenzo at Fiat Yamaha, and Félix Rodriguez, Team Coordinator for Pramac Racing, explain how they have been getting ready for Round 13 at the Spanish venue.

Lorenzo, Aleix Espargaró and Mika Kallio have all ridden production bikes on the track in a bid to learn the layout, and both Zeelenberg and Rodriguez discuss how they have combined that information with their own research and experience of other circuits to prepare as best as possible for this weekend’s GP.

Loris Capirossi unlikely to be fit for Aragon MotoGP

Factory Suzuki rider Loris Capirossi is a major doubt for the next round of the 2010 MotoGP world championship at the new Motorland Aragon circuit in the Spain.

The veteran Italian underwent a successful 90-minute operation to repair the severe damage to his right little finger suffered in a second corner crash during the last Sunday’s Misano MotoGP race.

Capirossi severed the tendon in his little digit after a collision with the American Nicky Hayden’s factory Ducati GP10 machine.

Suzuki sources have confirmed this morning that while the operation was a success, the 37-year-old is a major doubt and unlikely to be fit for the Motorland Aragon race on ther September 19.

If Capirossi is ruled out through the injury, it is unlikely the Japanese factory will replace him on a factory GSV-R machine.

Sunday’s Misano race was the 200th premier class start for the Capirossi and he is expected to quit Suzuki at the end of the campaign to join the Pramac Ducati outfit with Aleix Espargaro.